Whenever a classic show is announced to be getting remade, the news doesn't exactly get a warm reception. TV reboots are, more often than not, A Bad Idea.

And it's not just the fans who get angry at such a silly prospect. More often than not, the stars and creators of the original shows themselves are not in any way pleased. Especially if they've been left out altogether.

Here are the times where TV stars hit out at plans to bring their projects back:

During the making of series 5, NBC wanted to remake Red Dwarf for a US audience. And it was pretty damn rubbish. Despite creators Grant Naylor and Rob Grant trying to make it better, their ideas were ignored and it thankfully didn't end up being made into a full series.

Hunk machine Craig Bierko was miscast as Lister, the second version of the pilot only had white actors, and only Robert Llewellyn was brought back from the original crew (Chris Barrie was asked but he declined).

All of this contributed to the rest of the cast being rather upset about the whole affair. In particular, Craig Charles wasn't pleased. In a DVD documentary years later, he said: "The guy who played Rimmer was weak. And the guy who played me was really good, which pissed me off. But he was 6 foot 4, and handsome.

"I found about it from the makeup lady. She was making me up and she said she was off to America with Robert, to do the American show. And no-one had told us about it. And we just felt cheated. It was White Dwarf. Cat was a white woman. Lister was a blond-haired, brown-eyed, sex god.

"I'm glad it didn't work. If it had worked, there wouldn't have been a series 6. They would have all gone to America and become multi-millionaires, and me and Danny [John-Jules] would have gone on the dole."

2. Simon Pegg (Spaced)

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In 2007, Fox announced plans for a Spaced US remake pilot, despite not contacting stars and creators Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, or director Edgar Wright.

Less than a year later, Fox axed the plans altogether, following a huge backlash from the creators and fans. And Pegg made his feelings very clear in a statement shortly after the project was first announced.

He wrote: "My main problem with the notion of a Spaced remake is the sheer lack of respect that Granada/Wonderland/Warner Bros have displayed in respectively selling out and appropriating our ideas without even letting us know.

"A decision I can only presume was made as a way of avoiding having to give us any money, whilst at the same time using mine and Edgar's name in their press release, in order to trade on the success of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, even professing, as Peter Johnson did, to being a big fan of the show and its creators.

"If they don't care about the integrity of the original, why call it Spaced? Why attempt to find some validation by including mine and Edgar's names in the press release as if we were involved? Why not just lift the premise? Two strangers pretend to be a couple in order to secure residence of a flat/apartment. It's hardly Ibsen. Jess and I specifically jumped off from a very mainstream sitcom premise in order to unravel it so completely. Take it, have it, call it Perfect Strangers and hope Balkie doesn't sue. Just don't call it Spaced."

The US remake of hit UK comedy Gavin and Stacey looked to be going well, with Gilmore Girls' Alexis Bledel among the cast. Us & Them was scheduled to air on Fox in 2013, but it ended up being axed without airing a single episode.

Corden – who created the original show with Ruth Jones – later spoke of why America had failed to remake the show twice (NBC also mooted the idea at one stage).

"They never understood what the show was about," Corden told fans at PopFest in 2016. "They would buy the show and immediately change it."

Corden also explained that US networks wanted more conflict between the characters. "But our show wasn't about that," he said. "It was about the fact that most people's everyday life involves very little conflict. Most people like their friends.

"They might even hate their job, but they sort of get on with it. We wanted to make a show that held up a mirror to real life. American networks wanted there to be [fights] all the time."

Fans were in uproar about a US remake of The Inbetweeners, and MTV's version was indeed axed after just one season in 2012.

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But then there were rumours of an Inbetweeners reboot in some form, too, which just pissed fans off even more, if anything. And the cast and crew felt the same.

Speaking to Digital Spy, co-creator Damon Beesley said the potential reboot "would feel wrong". "The Inbetweeners is about those characters, it's not really a brand. It's the opposite of a brand – it was a small E4 show.

"The audience almost revolted over the idea of the American one," he said. "They didn't really give it a chance, just because it wasn't the original. So I can't imagine that people who like The Inbetweeners will feel any differently if you wrote a new one without any of the original people. Comedy is all about voices. You can't just go, 'Oh I know, we'll do Alan Partridge, but we won't have Steve Coogan or Armando Iannucci involved!'"

Meanwhile, James Buckley – foul-mouthed Jay – had his say too, adding: "I'm really proud of The Inbetweeners and we worked really hard on it. We cared about it and worried about it, and really wanted it to the best that we could make it.

"If some other sitcom turns up, it might be called The Inbetweeners, but it just wouldn't be. It sounds like a disaster. It seems like a bizarre idea. I don't know who wants that. I don't know who on Earth would want it."

Last year, the BBC aired a one-off prequel to the classic 1990s comedy, starring Kerry Howard as a younger version of Hyacinth Bucket.

While it was never touted as a pilot episode for a full series, the BBC has yet to announce plans for further episodes. However, Dame Patricia was not a fan of the idea from the start.

She told the Telegraph: "Why are they doing this sort of thing? They must be desperate. Look back at the '70s and '80s – Ronnie Barker, Leonard Rossiter in Rising Damp, those four masterly actors in The Good Life.

"[But] nothing to do with me, let them get on with it – no sitcoms as good as that around today. Is it true they're remaking Porridge too? Remind me to switch off, please."

Kerry was saddened by the comments from her idol, telling Radio Times: "Oh, it's so sad, isn't it? She was scathing about the whole project. I think she should be incredibly flattered that the BBC are paying homage to all these great shows. They were all massive hits and the BBC is celebrating its history."

Okay, he's not an actor, but name another TV writer who's remotely as famous.

The UK's answer to Friends was remade in America the year that Friends ended on NBC, but reactions and ratings were not great, and it was axed after just one season. And that was despite creator Moffat helping out.

Moffat later blamed the show's failure on NBC's constant interventions during the creative and production processes, saying in 2007: "The network f**ked it up because they intervened endlessly."

Shortly after the show was axed, Moffat posted his thoughts on the BBC America website, saying: "US Coupling was commissioned by NBC, promoted as the new Friends by NBC (we asked them not to), promoted as the sexiest show on TV by NBC (we begged them not to) promoted as 'the show you're all talking about' by NBC (no one had seen it, how could they be talking about it?) scheduled by NBC, noted to death by NBC, cancelled by NBC and publicly blamed and disowned by NBC."

He also told the Evening Standard just how much he hated the NBC bosses: "I only found out it had been cancelled when I read it on the internet. [NBC entertainment chief] Jeff Zucker said it sucked and no one was happier than him to see it end.